Tax relief planned!

Following the Republican tax cuts at the federal level, the president of Oklahoma “Taxpayers for freedom” Al Foster wants deep cuts in spending.

 His recent letter to a paper read: "We suggest a list of strategic budget cuts, establishing a comprehensive inventory of state functions for possible privatization, eliminating state income and sales tax exemptions, restoring tax-increment financing to its original intent, requiring every state agency and department to implement zero-based budgeting and requiring ongoing employee desk audits to decrease state employee numbers.

We have pointed the way for the Legislature to offer taxpayers needed property tax relief and to restrict spending. It is up to state senators to apply the will to accomplish these tasks."

Other details of the plan include pruning high school subjects to the essential only. “Teenage girls do not need to know about photosynthesis or the feudal system. They only want to take selfies and post on Facebook anyway. Understanding photosynthesis is not necessary for a cashier or a stocker at Shopko. If they work at Barnes and Noble, maybe. But they can read up on that in their own time.”